Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 708 |
| AUTHOR: | Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) |
| QUOTATION: | We cannot meet it [the threat of dictatorship] if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every man’s hand is out for pabulum and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| SUBJECTS: | Government |